The Good Old Days

Uh-oh. Admin’s surrounded by piles of papers. He has ink on his face and is in a real bad mood. Must be tax time, whatever that is.

“Do you realize,” he says, must be to me, since no one else is around, “that before the 16th Amendment in 1913 there was no U.S. income tax, except for a brief period in the Civil War?” He throws up his hands. “Why couldn’t I have been born back then?”

A tough one. I’ve got no answers. On the floor I spot a sheet of paper with lots of writing on it. For no particular reason I pick it up and take it outside for burial.

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Seems to us that life was pretty rough back then. For example, there were no paved roads and horses were not ridden for pleasure. They were the main means of transportation, on dirt (mud) roads. Also, life was only good if you were at the Top of the Heap. Otherwise, you worked from the time you were about 8 until you died. No weekends. No holidays. And many more than 8 hours. So, all in all, we think we’ll take what we have now.

Noise!…I heard explosions coming from the bathroom this morning and it startled me until I realized it was her mother…snort!..She was finally coming clean. I don’t think she has the flu, I think she had a bad case of junk-food…heh!… Get this, as my friend was leaving for the busy-place her mother asked her to pick up some donuts tonight on her way home…grunt!…Some people never learn…wheeze!

So…SnowBella’s resident Moose was not heard from last night. I don’t think he liked begin the butt of all the moosely humor.

Don’t know where Terri is but wasn’t Steve off to Disney World?

Rio: Good to hear your Friend’s mother is feeling better enough to be requesting Zingers.
Maggie too. Good for you! You’ll be ready for that postponed Easter Dinner with Dawson and the family on Sunday.

Good morning all –
BearSpirit – thanks for the reminder about Steve – we forgot he said he was going to Disney
Melanie is off doing errands this morning – she will be here later.
Mama says we owe all of you an apology – some of those puns last night were just painful.
(We thought they were moosetly pretty funny)

Royals: No need to apologize for the moosely punch lines. We now have many new words to add to our Plunderer lexicon.
(whispering) Rose, that would be moosefortune. lol
Staff: Heh, heh…and they just keep on coming.

Rose: Bear wishes he could take the credit, but it belongs to either Bella or Golinka…one of their (many) clever shots in the verbal ping-pong match of moosely puns.
Howlers: We would have loved your big bro, Boris Badanov!

Barb&Magpie: We didn’t watch the movie when it was on last week, but it continues to be one of our all time favorites…the book too.
Last night it was The Descendants. Nana says she liked it a lot, but didn’t “love it”, although George Clooney was great as the dad in a new and uncomfortable position as supervising parent.

Mom is always saying she was born too late for a whole bunch of reasons…not just taxes.

Good Morning, Bear. How are you this morning?

Mom went into a convenience store this morning and saw all different flavors of Zingers. This is he first time she has ever seen them for sale. She didn’t buy any because she said they looked frightful.

Mom says thanks Bear and Bee. She wants you to know that Moonman was just Misha’s nickname, given by Pop. He had the biggest ears ever seen in the Nation Within. And his registered name was Michael’s Revenge. This was when Gorby was put under house arrest by Boris Yeltsin.

Great photos, OH, and I’m sure BB was a proud graduate of Wossamotta U.
And good going, Chet, on burying the evidence. That was probably Admin’s tax deduction for all those Hawaiian pants he bought off of Bernie.
Wookie

Pine Tavern is a little restaurant/bar up in Sullivan County. When Mom & Pop used to camp up there all the time, they had lots of sweatshirts from places up there. Mom’s favorite was from a litle town named Shunk. That was before our time. We never get to go camping. We are the mistreated children.
Wookie, Boris even had a banner from Wattsamatta U.

Rose — My dad was curious as to how you were doing with The Art of Fielding. He just finished it. It bogged down a bit in the middle (it is quite long) but it really picked up steam towards the end, and he thought the ending was just terrific. Wookie

Wookie: I have about 175 pages left to read. I am really liking this book. I moosely like off-beat novels (like the kind Jonathan Franzen writes), so I don’t feel as if it has been “slow” or bogged down. It taking me a while to read, because I just don’t have enough hours in the day. When I rode the Metro-North to work, I had 2 hours a day to read.

Siber-H: Natty’s reaction to the photo was unfortunate and unexpected. We thought she was on a mission (maybe we could convince her it was PhotoShopped)
And, it’s not only Natasha to contend with…Macy is spitting mad too.

Bear, I agree. Natasha’s reaction to the photo was unexpected. If the Borzoi isn’t on a mission, she needs to go a mission. (Leave the high heels at home Natasha).
Macy only made mild splorting noises and she will get over it quick because the Rangers are winning.

Today I just proved that I’m smarter than my Mom . We were on the back deck, playing fetch in the sunshine when a cloud drifted overhead and started to rain on us. Mom said, “Oh, it’s nothing. Look, the sun’s still shining.” But I knew better. I poked her with my paw a couple of times to convince her we’d better go inside.

After a while, she got up from the computer and discovered how wet the deck was! She had to admit that I was the smart one today – hahaha.

Wookie: If we weren’t interested in Rockies Baseball before, we are now. And, it is all because of Jamie Moyer. Such an interesting guy! He seemly does everything wrong and somehow it comes out right. An amusing tidbit from the link: “The Rockies don’t use a radar gun when Moyer pitches, they use a sundial.”
We here are looking forward to the season.

Hi everyone – coming out of the clay room for a minute to see what is happening here.

Mama was talking to someone today who asked her what she listened to while working on clay. She doesn’t like news, or most tv shows. She likes music in the background and wanted to share with you all one of her favorites.
(sorry Rio, Wookie and Siber – its not a baseball link – but you might like it anyway)

Friday!….Woooooo!…Its like Friday night for my friend…heh!heh!…She has a long long weekend ahead of us…snorkel!…Right now we are waiting for it to rain and watching our very first ever episode of Boardwalk Empire…snort!….Buscemi is alreay brilliant in my opinion…heh!

Rio, I was shocked to hear that about Posey. I didn’t know a person that young could get shingles. I , too, was looking forward to seeing him this season. I wonder about his career in baseball now. I like him. sniff

Young!…Oh yes. My friend used to be at a busy-place with a young gal who was really athletic, not that that has anything to do with getting Shingles, but she waa very healthy and got them right across her forehead and cheek…grunt!…It was awful. Just like her skin split wide open. Very very painful….gasp!…It took a really long time before she could come back to that busy-place…sniff!…But she did recover and went on to have a family…snort!…So Buster will be fine – eventually…poor guy…wuffle!

Wookie!…I really want to read that article on Moyer …snort!…But I am too busy watching the game right now…heh!…Are you able to watch the Rockies Games?…sniff!…You could tell your Paw to purchase a Sports Package or sumthing this year…snort!…Its going to be OUR YEAR, don’t ya know?…heh!..And Look! I see a Pig Flying! Or is it a Moose?….Woooooo!

SiberH!…It looks like Bill’s front row seats are empty tonight…grunt!…I sure wish he would give them to me when he isn’t using them…sneeze!…I caught a glimpse of him posing with his little grandchildren on facebookie today – don’t ask me how!…snort!…It was all her doing. I’m not allowed to go out there unsupervised…sniffle!

Line-guy!….Heh!….One of the old guys who sits around the edge of the field and retrieves foul balls saw a ball coming and he ran, and ran and ran to get out of its way …heh!… The ball dropped right behind him on his heals barely missing him. He was running right into the path of the dreaded ball!…chorkle!…I notice things like this for some reason…sniff!

Rio, I was wondering about Bill while watching the game tonight.
I guess the weather isn’t so good up there…maybe that kept him at home.
My dad doesn’t believe me when I tell him that I know someone that knows someone that is setting in that seat.

Timmy!…He is smoldering tonight not Smokin’…heh!heh!…Thank dawg, because the Rocks need a confidence booster…woooooo!…They are up by 5 ta nuthing right now over the Giants – against Timmy…snorkel!…I could say that all night long….heh!

CRAP!…No offer!…grunt!…I really thought this was gonna be IT…sniff!…Sorry Barb. My friend says she would love to live in your house, but I don’t think she realizes there are Goats on the Grounds….gurgle!

Timmy!…snort!…He’s outta there! The fire is not there tonight….heh!…I have to remember this because that guy will figure it out and he will be better than ever next time and shear us like sheep….shudder!

Alice!…I wonder if Alice will be rooting for the Rockies again this year…sniffle!…I sure hope Not! Last year was a disaster…gulp!…How are the Twins doing so far? I have not checked their stats yet…grunt!

Staff has been very busy. Well slightly busy, trying to clear out the room Dawson will use when she first gets here. She may move to the front room later depending on where the air conditioner gets located. But meanwhile we HAVE to get the middle room cleared out. It is amazing how much stuff she has collected in the past year and 1/2. It will not all go home in one trip that is for sure.

Wookie!…This is going to be a very long game….snuffle!…It is only the 7th inning right now!..snort!…The game started 3 hours 25 minutes ago…grunt!… We unfortunetly have to let them do it without us. She has a cousin coming over tomorrow morning to learn how to make “Great Grandms’s Case Noodle” – it is in the Dishlickers Cookbook!…heh!heh!…I am going to watch all of the goings on…chuffle!…Nobody, I mean nobody ever wants to learn how to make these things….hah!snort!